Example sentences of "[subord] the average [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a friend with me who had caught chub only from the river Dane where the average size was 1½lb . |
| 2 | This did not reflect a few well-organized sectors and a larger number of unorganized ones as was the case in the United States , for example , where the average level of unionization was similar . |
| 3 | ‘ As a footballer , my ambition was to play next week , and now as a manager , where the average expectancy is two-and-a-half years , it is to manage a winning team next week . |
| 4 | I am having problems selecting the larger fish in my water where the average run of the mill fish are between 2 lb an 4 lb . |
| 5 | A country where the average income is only $350 a year , and where the poor jostle for space as well as food , will never find it easy to bind up its factional wounds . |
| 6 | I reckon , however , that a barbel is a specimen when it weighs more than 7lb , though a 7lb barbel from the Severn is obviously a more rewarding catch than one of the same weight from the Hampshire Avon or Dorset Stour where the average weight is higher . |
| 7 | There are nearly seven times as many taxpayers in the South East , where the average wage is £17,000 , but Labour 's proposals would sharply increase the tax burden they bear . |
| 8 | He quotes an example from a dunefield in southern Peru where the average width of barchans is 37 m and their height about one tenth of this , this being a width height ratio commonly found in barchans . |
| 9 | However , all the evidence concerning mining villages , where fertility rates continued to be high until the 1930s and where the average age at marriage was also significantly lower than the national average , suggests that role relationships within marriage were segregated . |
| 10 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 11 | The average pensioner is 32% better off in real terms than the average pensioner in 1979 . |
| 12 | The average Cuban in the United States has better moral values and more love for the family than the average American . |
| 13 | I personally do n't believe that the average English citizen is any less proud of their own country than the average American . |
| 14 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 15 | She slipped into a frock made of less tape than the average cassette . |
| 16 | ‘ Guerillas In Tha Mist ’ is not a great album by Ice Cube 's standards , but it 's still stronger than the average hardcore LP . |
| 17 | Note that the average payment following the optimal strategy is around three times greater than the average payment following the myopic strategy . |
| 18 | Because New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives , shows would close for a couple of months when the Girls would be sent home for a holiday on half pay , which was better than the average salary in Britain . |
| 19 | THE average radiation exposure to a Sellafield site worker is now less than the average dose which people in the United Kingdom receive every year from natural radiation sources . |
| 20 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 21 | In areas of resistant rocks the wavecut platform ( Plate 27 ) , although often showing some degree of concavity , may be considerably flatter than the average sand and shingle beach . |
| 22 | ‘ They have to be tougher than the average kid , I do n't like losers , but once they 're into boxing it takes them off the streets , away from the drugs and alcohol , ’ said Lol , 57 . |
| 23 | It is true that there is also a chance that the individual plaintiff may live longer than the average expectation of life . |
| 24 | Election ‘ 92 : ‘ A lot less tiring than the average day in Downing Street ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been a lot less tiring than the average day in Downing Street , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 26 | Now , of course , we are told that council tenants pay more , on average , than the average mortgagee pays in repayments . |
| 27 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped child will be dependent on other people , including its parents , more than the average child . |
| 28 | Robertson Nicoll , with his journalistic exuberance , boasted in 1902 that ‘ the average Dissenting minister has … a better literary and theological culture than the average minister of the Church [ of England ] ’ who were ‘ the worst educated [ ministry ] in this country ’ . |
| 29 | T. B. You 're walking slower than the average person , when you 're first about . |
| 30 | Running 26.2 miles is further than the average person achieves in a lifetime and you 've done it in around four hours or less writes . |